I would hope they would, but with respect to Morneau Sobeco, if my memory serves me correctly, and from what I've heard with respect to that particular firm, there was already business being conducted with them, and therefore there was an implied contract. As a result, the decision was made to sole-source it to Morneau Sobeco, because of the implied contract already in place.
Therefore, Morneau Sobeco was awarded the contract, based on the fact that offer acceptance and consideration was already in place, and under business law they could take us to civil proceedings and say that there was an implied contract to start with. To my knowledge, therefore, they did not go through the normal contracting and procurement procedures with respect to awarding of that contract.
Did Dominic Crupi sole-source that? I'm not sure. Was Dominic Crupi involved with working with Morneau Sobeco up front? Absolutely. Did the organization take a risk-managed approach and say, “Will we be served civilly, and therefore end up with two separate contracts? If we go to the public tendering process and another person is awarded, then would Morneau Sobeco stand a legal challenge with respect to saying there's already an implied contract because we've done work on this?”